PARALLEL VISIONS Modern Artists and outsider Art

Los Angeles / Princeton : Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Princeton University Press, 1992. (USA) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, about Fine. Wraps with flaps, [336]pp, index, colour reproductions of artworks augmented with B&W photos and illus. Parallel Visions, an exhibition and catalogue organized and produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals the considerable influence that outsider art has had on the development of twentieth-century art. The work of such "marginalized" artists and compulsive visionaries as Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand Cheval, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Madge Gill, Martin Ram!rez, P. M. Wentworth, Adolf Wlfli, and Joseph Yoakum is juxtaposed with the work of devotees of outsider art among modern artists. Essays by the curators of the exhibition, Maurice Tuchman and Carol S. Eliel, and by other commentators offer a history of this phenomenon as well as an exploration of issues crucial to the formation of our aesthetic and critical judgments and our notions of creativity. In addition to the curators, the contributors include Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Barbara Freeman, Sander L. Gilman, Mark Gisbourne, Reinhold Heller, John M. MacGregor, Donald Preziosi, Allen Weiss, Jonathan Williams, and Sarah Wilson. A fascinating work. A heavy book. (3.8 JM HOZ 403/3. 1st. Paperback. Fine (-). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue.